Archives - 18 September 2017, Monday

It seems like every time you turn around, another company, utility, municipality or institution announces some sort of “smart” initiative. In July, Xcel Energy and Panasonic announced a collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and others to study a potential carbon-...

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) over the weekend awarded the 700-MW fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park , located south of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The concentrated solar power (CSP) project was awarded to a consortium comprising Saudi Ar...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The solar industry responded to the New York Public Service Commission’s (Commission) approval of utility implementation plans in the Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) proceeding. These critical plans set the compensation for solar customers in each utili...

The next wave of corporate renewable energy champions IN DEPTH | The corporate renewable-energy movement, led by multinationals such as Google and Lego, has grown massively in a few short years — but could ‘good business’ also help slow climate change? asks Darius Snieckus Fill in the...

In collaboration with Neste, Geneva Airport has committed to introduce sustainable and renewable jet fuel for aircraft operations, with a target of at least one percent of the annual jet fuel consumption starting late 2018. This collaboration marks Geneva’s transition into the impleme...

Siemens Gamesa plans Brazil hub exports to aid supply chain Fill in the form to get 5 articles for FREE! Did you know that Recharge has readers in more than 50 countries? Recharge is the world's most important news service for the wind sector You will be the first to know - a competit...

The new rules were discussed with local and international investors and equipment suppliers at a seminar organised by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), with the participation of the Energy and Mining Ministry and the Argentinian-German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) at the Buenos Aire...

With the U.S. on pace for 4 million solar electric (PV) installations by 2020, building and electrical inspectors and other local code officials have their work cut out for them to keep up. It’s their job to ensure proper, safe installations, in line with current codes and standards. ...

The newly-formed SC NovaWind will consolidate all the "wind energy assets of Rosatom", the company said. It will start with capital backing of roughly RUB 1,101 billion (€15.98 billion), Rosatom confirmed. Rosatom’s subsidiary Otek had signed a technology licensing agreement with Dutc...

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As California’s legislative session came to a close, three bills which would have accelerated the state’s renewable energy development and created the necessary prerequisites for an integrated grid in the West stalled. Opponents to the bills had offered “poison pill” amendments that w...

However, the real estate industry may not completely agree with the Mayor’s strategy, arguing that the city’s measurement of energy efficiency is not fair – it considers the size of the buildings only, and not the number of people using energy in that building. “The city’s goals could...

(a) Each investor-owned utility’s customer-owned renewable generation Standard Interconnection Agreement may require customers to install, at the customer’s expense, a manual disconnect switch of the visible load break type to provide a separation point between the AC power output of ...

Bosch claims it has developed a manufacturing process for synthetic fuel that will make internal combustion engines carbon-neutral. The company says the process turns CO2 into a raw material and can make synthetic fuel that, if used in cars as planned, could save up to 2.8 gigatons of...

Scientists at the Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a mix of metal nanocrystals wrapped in graphene that may be a huge step in storing hydrogen and may lead to the creation of a new type of fuel cell. Graphene is a thin sheet of carbon that is approximately 200 times stronge...